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In 1995, when I ﬁrst began to learn Kurdish, my interest was captivated by the feature commonly referred to as ergativity in the past tense of transitive verbs. Although it was familiar to me in an abstract fashion from the linguistic literature, actually using a language with that particular feature is a very different matter. However, at a fairly early stage I came to the conclusion that ergativity in Kurdish was a largely superﬁcial phenomenon, something manifested in the morphology, but without apparent ramiﬁcations for the syntax.

As 2010 was coming to an end, one could make a forceful argument that the year was an intriguing and fruitful one when it came to the long neglected Kurdish language, art, and literature. Kurdish intellectuals, politicians, and activists in the homeland and Diaspora for the first time discussed their shared interests and aspirations to ensure that they re-discover, reassert and regain their role in studying, safeguarding, and representing their cultural legacy and ethnic and linguistic identity.

Even when he was little, his parents could tell that their shy and somewhat reclusive boy was different from the rest of the village boys. They were mostly the rough type, climbing trees and rocks and chasing the animals and often bringing their parents a great deal of trouble. He, by contrast, kept mostly to himself. For prolonged periods of time he would gaze intensely at the sky, the rain, and the surrounding mountains. And the stories the men told by the fire or on the rooftop under a crisp, starry summer night made the youngster dream of things he had never seen.

In this article 'Caucasica'1 Professor H. W. Bailey drew attention to an interesting article by A. Shanidze. 'The newly-discovered alphabet of the Caucasian Albanians and its significance for sciene', in a sadly inaccessible periodical.2 'The discovery of the lost alphabet was made by I. Abuladze in an Armanian manuscript of the fifteenth century containing a miscellany of alphabets, Greek, Syriac, Latin, Georgian, Coptic, Arabic, and Albanian.'